Bibliography

Below are lists of text titles recommended by group members, organized by category:

General Disability Studies Theory / Criticism

  • Tobin Siebers, Disability Aesthetics
  • Susan Wendell, The Rejected Body
  • Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Staring: How We Look
  • Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Extraordinary Bodies
  • Simi Linton, Claiming Disability
  • Robert McRuer, Crip Theory
  • Tobin Siebers, Disability Theory
  • Snyder / Bruggemann / Garland-Thomson, Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities
  • Lennard Davis, The Disability Studies Reader

Field-Specific Disability Studies Texts: Humanities

  • Mirial Bailin, The Sickroom in Victorian Fiction
  • Helen Deutsch / Felicity Nussbaum, “defects”: Engendering the Modern Body
  • Martha Stoddard Holmes, Fictions of Affliction
  • Erin O’Connor, Raw Material
  • Marlene Tromp, Victorian Freaks
  • Athena Vrettos, Somatic Fictions
  • Paul Youngquist, Monstrosities: Bodies and British Romanticism

Field-Specific Disability Studies Texts: Social Sciences


Disability Memoir

  • Nancy Mairs, Waist-High in the World


Disability Fiction / Poetry / Art